Rivaparc Apartment Renovation / Nhabe Scholae

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  • Architects: Nhabe Scholae
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  75
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2018
  • Photographs
    Photographs:Hyroyuki Oki
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  AutoDesk, Dulux, Hippicdesign, Hippicdesign, Local brand, Rainbow, Sofacompany, Sofacompany, Tan My A, Tan My A, Trimble
  • Lead Architect: Nguyen Anh Cuong
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Rivaparc Apartment Renovation / Nhabe Scholae - Interior Photography, Living Room, Sofa, Table, Shelving, Chair
© Hyroyuki Oki

"..poetically man dwells.."
The project renovates a 75 m2 apartment situated by Kenh Te Canal, Ho Chi Minh City. The agenda was simple: to build a co-living studio for the owner whose majority of possessions consisted of plants and books. Naturally, the idea is to make a unique open-space plan filled with southern light.

Rivaparc Apartment Renovation / Nhabe Scholae - Interior Photography, Closet, Shelving, Table
© Hyroyuki Oki
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Rivaparc Apartment Renovation / Nhabe Scholae - Interior Photography, Kitchen, Chair
© Hyroyuki Oki

Our interest was in the creation of a landscape-like interior, a topography for objects (house plants, furniture, books, carpets…) floating over a luminous, neutral grey epoxy floor. On this neutral platform, the very zero degrees of architecture, the owner’s body and belongings became alike entities, equally important. The traditional anthropocentric design is replaced by a multi-centered field. This ex-centered view consists of the owner’s daily negotiations in terms of space and territory with things around him-living plants and furniture.

Rivaparc Apartment Renovation / Nhabe Scholae - Interior Photography, Kitchen, Windows
© Hyroyuki Oki

His relationship to this apartment-a space of intimacy where his self extends to and becomes the objects around him-constitutes an unconventional way of defining home: a home is where one strives not to be the master of his environment but to nurture a contemplative relationship, to be part, to be between things. Because the design allows for no space to hide the interior objects, to some extent, this transparency assigns the objects the status of an installation display. The content of this displaying landscape then becomes an externalization of self and of memories.

Rivaparc Apartment Renovation / Nhabe Scholae - Interior Photography, Windows, Chair
© Hyroyuki Oki
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Rivaparc Apartment Renovation / Nhabe Scholae - Interior Photography, Windows, Garden
© Hyroyuki Oki

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Address:District 4, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

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Cite: "Rivaparc Apartment Renovation / Nhabe Scholae" 15 Dec 2020. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/930778/rivaparc-apartment-renovation-nhabe-scholae> ISSN 0719-8884

© Hyroyuki Oki

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